Wow, this had some really sick stuff going on. I only read an excerpt of book prior to release. Back back then Stephen King was trying out a new experiment. He was releasing this books online to read and I think he was going to do it in a serial format, but I only read the first excerpt. And from what I read this is very different.
I don't know if all the rest of the stuff was in the book. There's child abuse going on in here. Incest actually. And we see that Mom was pretty much exposing her son to a lot of sexual escapades by herself. Pretty sick stuff, but, unfortunately, not unheard of.
Now I love the actor who's playing the lead role. But come on guys this, has to have been written by a man. I mean this is not a particularly attractive man albeit, in real life he may be because of the accent and his personality and that kind of thing. But how many women are we going to have flinging themselves at this old guy, who's frankly this old drunk. Come on that's not happening in real life. It's almost cliche in these movies where some actor who's well into his sixties is married to a woman who would really be his granddaughter. I mean why am I watching old man fantasies being played out when I'm watching a movie. it's pretty gross. Takes me right out of the movie.
One thing that's kind of annoying. At one point when he went to the precinct am his cop friend saw him outside just standing there and asked if he was confused, he responded, no, I was just doing my cop thing looking around and observing. So why can't he put two and two together about the strange actions of the ice cream guy? He found the ball when the ice cream guy was in the neighborhood. And when he went to go get an ice cream and he was with the kid who's been helping him, the ice cream guy drives off really quickly. Where's his cop sense?
I don't know if all the rest of the stuff was in the book. There's child abuse going on in here. Incest actually. And we see that Mom was pretty much exposing her son to a lot of sexual escapades by herself. Pretty sick stuff, but, unfortunately, not unheard of.
Now I love the actor who's playing the lead role. But come on guys this, has to have been written by a man. I mean this is not a particularly attractive man albeit, in real life he may be because of the accent and his personality and that kind of thing. But how many women are we going to have flinging themselves at this old guy, who's frankly this old drunk. Come on that's not happening in real life. It's almost cliche in these movies where some actor who's well into his sixties is married to a woman who would really be his granddaughter. I mean why am I watching old man fantasies being played out when I'm watching a movie. it's pretty gross. Takes me right out of the movie.
One thing that's kind of annoying. At one point when he went to the precinct am his cop friend saw him outside just standing there and asked if he was confused, he responded, no, I was just doing my cop thing looking around and observing. So why can't he put two and two together about the strange actions of the ice cream guy? He found the ball when the ice cream guy was in the neighborhood. And when he went to go get an ice cream and he was with the kid who's been helping him, the ice cream guy drives off really quickly. Where's his cop sense?
